Intelligent Urban Water Supply Testbed

At-A-Glance

For public utilities, local governments and

management of critical infrastructure who

wish to streamline and improve water

supply operations,

our Intelligent Urban Water Supply

Testbed demonstrates

how IIoT can improve water delivery

processes, decrease operational costs,

protect the environment and enhance

public safety.

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Increases in global population puts a strain on natural resources. Water quality,supply/demand and energy consumption are difficult to monitor and maintain due to lackof visibility into the supply pipeline, pumping efficiency and equipment operations.

The Societal & Environmental Problem

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High demand: Dramatic urban population growth. In China, over 50% of the population live in urban areas.

Water scarcity: per capita availability of water in China is 1/3 the world average.

Lower quality: 45% of the water sources in China are below drinking standards for all or part of the year.

Qinzhou city (population approx. 3.8 million) was chosen as the initial testbeddeployment site. As of late 2017 the testbed footprint has since expanded to 100municipalities. Prior to testbed deployment, the city faced:

The Technical Problem

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Lack of visibility into Supply Operations• Unreliable, impotable water• Wasted water, contamination, leakage

No visibility into Physical Assets• Unreliable pumps, vaults, pipelines• No capacity for predictive maintenance

Inefficient Operations• Service interruptions• Inefficient energy consumption• High costs

• Dissatisfied residents

Impact of the Problem

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Environment

Wasted natural resources.Inefficient energy consumption.

Water quality degradation.

Business

High operational costs & maintenance expenses.

Restricted ability for effective urban planning.

Limited capabilities to redirect funds to system

improvements.

Society

Public safely & health risks.Negative effect on quality of life.

Dissatisfied residents.

Apply an industrial internet technology system that integrates urban water supply assets, information systems and business processes to deliver safe, quality water to residents with high reliability and efficiency; benefiting society, businesses and environment.

The Solution

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Enhance urban water supply delivery & reliability by providing advanced asset monitoring and maintenance

Increase safety and quality of water supply by applying system-wide quality monitoring and degradation detection

Increase energy efficiency of water supply operations by ~30% via insight into operational assets (pumps, vaults, pipelines) energy consumption and leakage detection.

Progress Report

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Testbed Approval

• April 2016

• Determine Participant Roles

Define Initial Use Cases

1) Predictive Maintenance

2) Reduce Energy Consumption

3) Water Quality Monitoring

4) Leakage Detection

5) Stored Water Quality Improvement

6) Balance Supply & Demand

Align Testbed Participants

• Establish platform

• Determine IIRA*, & security applicability and methodologies

• Co-design the system

Establish Connectivity

with Equipment

• Build and connect software and hardware assets

• Determine relations with other Testbeds

• Research additional capabilities needed

Initial Results Reporting

• December 2017

• Contribute guidance and design documentation

• Bring in other ecosystem partners

* Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (www.iiconsortium.org/IIRA)

The Team

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Initial location:

中国 广西 钦州市

What’s next?

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Activity Timeline

Establishing the cloud system and connectivity to the equipment. Integrate brownfield equipment.

Completed 2016/17

Monitor operational state of equipment. Ongoing

Identify anomalies & perform diagnostics. Ongoing

Improve stored water quality. Balance supply & demand.

2017/2018

Increase energy efficiencies by 30%, share best practices and continually enhance business models.

2018 & beyond

Have questions about this testbed?

• Visit www.iiconsortium.org/intelligent-urban-water-supply

• Read full article: www.iiconsortium.org/news/joi-articles/2017-Nov_JoI_Intell_Urban_Water_Supply_Testbed.pdf

• Send email to info@iiconsortium.org

“One challenge the testbed has faced isinteroperability. The ability to adapt to

various data formats is incredibly important. Combined with other

capability upgrades, this may lead to increased revenues by adapting or

transforming oldequipment to new technologies.”

~DR. SHI-WAN LIN, CEO, THINGSWISE

Many cities in the world face watersupply challenges including waterquality, supply and demand, and energyconsumption. It is difficult to monitorand maintain due to lack of visibility intothe supply pipeline, pumping efficiencyand equipment operations.

The Problem

Intelligent Urban Water Supply Testbed

Our Solution

Team

The Intelligent Urban Water SupplyTestbed system integrates urbanwater supply assets, informationsystems and business processes todeliver safe, quality water to urbanresidents in a highly reliable andefficient manner. It benefits society,businesses and the environment.

• WPG• Thingswise, LLC• CAICT

Key Benefits

• Enhances efficiency of Water Supply Operations and reduces water delivery energy consumption up to 30%.

• Increases public safety and quality of water supply.

• Improves availability of water supply.

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